Region: Red Mountain AVA, Washington

Vintage: 2018

Composition: 68% Mourvédre, 24% Grenache, and 8% Syrah

History: In Homer’s Illiad, Nyx (”All-Subduing Night”) is the only entity that Zeus fears. She is Goddess of the Night, considered to be among the first deities to ever exist. There is some disagreement as to her absolute age; in some Greek texts, Nyx appears as the first principle, even before Chaos. In others, she is the second, having emerged from Chaos. Either way, she’s a bad-ass, often depicted with dangerous animals and celestial bodies.